The criminal justice system has simply not adjusted to the 200 percent increase in bias-motivated crime between 1986 and 1987.

Why is it that when we come to bias-motivated crime, the Governor is suddenly saying he wants to leave it up to local district attorneys?

Mr. Cuomo has proposed legislation that would toughen penalties for bias-motivated crimes and allow victims to sue their attackers.

Heretofore, if there was a bias-motivated crime, we would assign detectives to investigate it.

But the police said there was nothing to indicate Mr. Whitesell's death was a pickup murder or that is was a bias-motivated crime.

Allen Andrade was convicted of first-degree murder and committing a bias-motivated crime, because he killed her after he learned that she was transgender.

In 1996, 8,759 bias-motivated crimes were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by state and local law-enforcement agencies, compared with 7,947 in 1995.

But judging by anecdotal reports, she said, her organization believes bias-motivated crime is rising.

In the English language, a hate crime (also known as a "bias-motivated crime") generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by hate.

Also as expected, a bill to increase penalties for bias-motivated violent crimes also died.